Many people are of the opinion that R has a corner on convenient data analysis. That may or may not be true.

But now R literally has a corner that makes data analysis more convenient. If you have a data frame or a matrix with a few columns, then you can use head and/or tail to make sure that it looks as you expect. However, the result is unappetizing if there are hundreds or thousands of columns.

That is is where corner comes in. It shows you the first or last few rows of the first or last few columns.

The mtcars dataset can serve as an example even though it isn’t exactly a gigantic dataset.

David,corner was right next to head and tail and only the latter two went into the utils package. I’m guessing that you’ll just have to live with the status quo, but I wouldn’t think it impossible (and I’d welcome) that corner move in with its old friends.